07/12/2019
DBS Group Holdings' first-quarter net profit rose 9 per cent to $1.65 billion from $1.52 billion in the same period last year on the back of higher interest rates and growth in non-trade loans.
07/10/2019
it also eased growing expectations the Fed would cut interest rates by 50 bps from the current 2.25%-2.5% as early as its July FOMC meeting to just a 25bps reduction.
07/10/2019
The survey found that fintech ranks as Hong Kong’s strongest innovation sector, with 67 percent of entrepreneurs and 61 percent of students agreeing Hong Kong is well-positioned as a fintech innovation hub.
07/10/2019
The latest NAB Business Survey - conducted from June 18 - 28 (two weeks after the RBA first took down rates from 1.5% to 1.25%)
07/09/2019
Voluminous evidence shows that the fruit has not fallen far from the tree
07/09/2019
There is a lack of relationship between the performance of MySuper products, level of volatility and the riskiness of underlying investments as recognised by growth asset weighting, the report said.
07/09/2019
Superannuation assets have also grown as a portion of personal wealth, from 19.2 per cent in 2007 to 24.4 per cent of Australians’ wealth.
07/09/2019
The ultra-HNWI population declined by 4%, and their wealth declined by around 6%.
07/09/2019
19 years on, Iress has changed a lot.
07/07/2019
Pakistan’s Election Commission list includes Shehbaz Sharif, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Asif Ali Zardari, but jewellery and cars are not popular investments.
07/07/2019
One of them is that the Philippines has a reputation for sending its own people overseas in droves rather than attracting foreigners who want to live and work there.
07/04/2019
To emerge from a period of potential consolidation, Asia’s banks must reinvent themselves or risk disappearing.
07/04/2019
This is the same demographic group that has the highest percentage of smartphone ownership and interacts with their smartphone more than anything or anyone else.
07/04/2019
China has delivered the message of globalization in WEF for years.
07/03/2019
Expanding investments in public assets, where GIC already seeks to deploy the bulk of its capital, will be less of a challenge than doing so in private markets.
07/03/2019
Over the past three and a half years since the completion of the Paris Agreement there has been a staggering rise in the number of new policies, targets and initiatives around the world addressing a number of environmental and social issues.
07/03/2019
In the hands of lazy marketers, it can promote stereotyping and overgeneralization, while for the rest, it’s a welcomed tool.
07/02/2019
See who is in – and who is out of – the 7 per cent Club
07/02/2019
Slowing growth, fintech competition cloud outlook for lenders
06/28/2019
Funds investing in local properties yielded 5.7 percent of return for one year, 38.6 percent for two years and 94.9 percent for five years.